Device for packaging laundry



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DEVICE FOR PACKAGING LAUNDRY Original Filed July 18,1956 2 Sheets-v-Sheet 1 Jan. 17, 1939. w c. KRO UT DEVICE FOR PACKAGING LAUNDRY 2 Sheets -Sheet 2 Original Filed July- 18, 195

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Patented Jan. 1 7, 1939 PATENT "OFFICE 2.144.573 DEVICE Fen PACKAGING LAUNDRY Walter .C. .Krout, Charlotte, N. G.

, Original application July 1 18, 1936, Serial, No. 91,400. Dividedand this applicationMarch 27,

1937, Serial No. 133,457

s Claims; (01. 22383) My invention consists in a new and 'u sefulim provement in devices for packaging laundryand is designed more particularlyfor packaging mens shirts having starched collars, freshly laundered,

5 This application is a divisional application from my original application, Serial Number 91,490, filed on July 18, 1936; patented 'April 6, 1937,

Number 2,076,467. Within comparatively recent times, the practice has been adopted by many laundries of starching collars attached to mens shirts, and in packaging shirts so laundered the pressure incident to the packaging tends to crush j such starchedcollars. My improved device'obvi- 1 ates the possibility of such damage and permits shirts, insuring ample protection to thejcollars. The particularly novel feature of mydevice is that it provides spacers applied to the collars of the shirts by insertion within the collars and 20 folds thereof, so as to be interposed between the shirts, by which any pressure due to packaging is sustained by the shirts and spacers, and is not exerted upon the collars. I consider the details and useful improvement. f r I While I have'illustrated in the drawings filed herewith and have hereinafter fully described several specific embodiments of my invention,it

30 is to be distinctly understood that I do not consider my invention limited to said specific embodiments, but refer for its scope to the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings:

3 Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a package containing two shirts, illustrating the use of my improved device.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary top plan view of a shirt provided with my improved device.

4.0 Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my improved device, illustrating it in the position shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of my improved device.

45 Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section through the upper portion of a shirt provided with a modified form of my device.

Fig. 6 is a top plan View of the two parts of the modified form of my device illustrated in 50 Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a vertical longitudinal section through theupper portion of a shirtprovided with another modified form of my device. 7

. Fig. 8 is a top plan view of two parts of the I '55 modified form of the device illustrated in Fig. 7.

packaging of a considerable number of such' Fig. 9 is a bottom plan view of the fastening means employed in the modified form of the device illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8.

As illustrated in Fig. ,4, my improved device comprises a member I having the lower concave 5 edge 2 and the upperconvex edges 3 and 4, parallel with the edge 2 and extending from the ends 5 to the edges 6 and 1 respectively, forming thetongue 8 having the score 9 connecting the inner ends ofthe edges 6 and l, and a sec- 9 0nd score l0 parallel with the score9 and disposed about midway between the score 9 and the upperends of the edges 6 and l. Formed integral with: the tongue 8 is the member ll having the concave edges l2 and I3 extending 5 outwardly from the tongue 8 and adjacent to the edg-es3 and 4 respectively of the member I. The member II has the, outer convex edge 14 parallel with the edge'2 and, edges 3, 4, l2 and Hi. The member H has the obtuse-angled ends l5 forming points l6.

1As illustrated in Fig. 2, when my improved devi'ce isapplied to the collar C of the shirt S, the member. I curving to conform to the curvature of the collar C fits against the inner face of the inner wall of the collar C, and the tongue 8 being folded on the score 9, its portion 8 projects forwardly from the member I through the front opening of the collar C. The tongue 8 being bent on fthe score Ill, its portion 8' extends downwardly and'forwardly, the'member H being inserted. beneath the wings W of the collar C, the points I 6 facilitating such insertion, and the member II, when so. inserted curving to conform to the curvature of the collar C, bearing against the outer face of the inner wall of the collar 0, co-acts with the member I to clasp the inner wall of the collar C, therebetween. As clearly illustrated in Fig. 3, the bending of the' tongue 8, on the score 9, away from the mem- 40 her I, when my device is positioned as indicated in Fig. 2, provides the abutments IT at the innerends of the edges 3 and 4 of the member I. It is to be particularly noted (see Fig. 1) that by reason of the disposition of the device, as above described, the edges 3 and 4 with these abutments I! are positioned at a considerable distance beyond the top edge C of the collar C, thus effectually providing the spacing element for the shirt S. It is, therefore, obvious from the illustration of the use of myimproved device in Fig. 1 that when a pair of shirts S, each properly provided with one of my improved spacing devices, are faced and enclosed in a suitable box B, the lower portion S of each shirt, posiin such a way as to prevent its contact with the collar C.

the wings W of the'collar C, and when so inserted curving to conform to the curvature of the collar C it bears against the outer face of the inner wall of the collar C. The shank 31 of the The modified form of device, illustrated in -clamping element 36 is passed downwardly Figs. 5 and 6, comprises the rectangular memthrough the notch 32 of the member 3|, and the ber 2| having the notch 22, and the arcuate 'plates 38 are bent downwardly and inwardly, member 23 having the tongue-24 provided with theirifang's 39 fiaissing through theorifice's -33 and the scores '25 and '26, It is to be noted that the 35 and pierc i ng the meeting edges of the inner Width of the notch 22, at its outer end, is the Wall of the collar C, the clamping element 36 same as the width of the tongue 24, and slightly -bearing against the members 3| and 34 causing greater at its inner end. 7 ,them toplasp-theinner wall of the collar (2 there-\ As illustrated in Fig. 5, the "between;

member'z'l "cur ing to conform to the curvature of the collar-C disposed 'at' ,a' considerable 'distancabeyond the 5 top'eid'ge c' of the ,collarC; Thu'sit, is iobviou f -element to prevent contact of the lower'poition sf".

fits against the inner face of the inner wall of the collar C. The member 23iisinserted beneath j' the wings W of the collar Cfand, whenso in H side ab 'd serted curving to conform to the curvature of the collar C, it bears against the outer face of theinner, wall of thecollar C, and the tongue 24'foffthef member 23 being foldedon the" score 25 'projectsrearwardly from" the YInember'YZB 'j i through the fronto'peningfofthe collar C andjs received through the notch zz of the ember 21, and" being again bent on the f score 26 Lextends' downwardly and" is folded against the" in'nerjf e1 ofthe"me mber 2 l, the members '2! and 23* acting'jtofclas'p the inner wall of the coll are positioned" as above descrlb ed,'the tongue 2'4 is" positioned at" the bottom of thenotjchj Mand that the uppe'r edge 2! of theniemberfil is] that by the "useof this modified form .of-my device', j Iiisecure thesarne result'as'bythe use of that formfl of nr iyidevice illustrated in Fig. 1', VizLa spacing f of the shirtswith the collar 0." 1 r o The modified form of device illustratedir'i Figs. 7 8 and "9' comprises the rectangularmmber 3L having the'notch'32 and circular orific'e 3 3, ar'1'dl ;the'arci1iate member a l having the orifice 35, an thecla'niping element the "shankfifl and} at 8vi s 1 Z i As lustrated in Fig. 7, the memberj l curving togonform to the curvature of the collar- C fits a ainst the inner face of .theinner wall oi tha ll Q- he'm mber 34 s sert d-b neath:

mit willibe noted from Fig. '7 that when the parts" rice beyond: the top edge C of the collar 'CJ Thus it obvious that by the use of,

116 h; arid a u shapeata 1 legs -textending from the firs ,Iband,

against aidi p W2 9 mber 3t, is disposed at a-con-v 

